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UPCOMING EVENTS
7.20PM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8TH
ONE FINE DAY
+ LIVE Q&A WITH CORRINA ANTROBUS AUTHOR OF ‘I LOVE ROMCOMS & I AM A FEMINIST’
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Join us for an evening celebrating and reappraising one of cinema’s most beloved but misunderstood genres, the Romantic Comedy. On the night we’ll be hosting a special in person Q&A with author and film critic (Empire, BBC Radio, Huffington Post, Total Film, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch), & founder of the Bechdel Test Film Fest, straight from her event at London Film Festival, Corrina Antrobus.
In her new beautifully illustrated book*, she examines Rom Coms with a Feminist eye and highlights the (perhaps unexpectedly) positive contributions to feminism many of your favourites have made. From Harold & Maude to Notting Hill to Barbie, we discuss her joyous Rom Com feminist manifesto, followed by a screening of a true underrated gem of the genre, ‘One Fine Day’.
The film takes an almost classical 30s style romantic comedy approach fusing it with the aesthetics of a 1996 rainy New York as two working parents juggle kids and the corporate world. Led by two generational talents in Michelle Pffeifer and George Clooney (in full Cary Grant mode) it is a surprisingly witty affair with sharp dialogue and a refreshing honesty about parenthood and dating that all adds up to a big warm hug of a movie with a surprising dose of sophistication.
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*Copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night.
8PM THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14TH
HOUSEKEEPING
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Perhaps Scotland’s greatest ever director, Bill Forsyth is best known for his smash hit British films Gregory’s Girl and Local Hero, but it’s perhaps his first American film that is his masterpiece.
Based on the novel of the same name by Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping tells the story of two young girls who, after the suicide of their mother, find themselves in the care of their cheerful but decidedly odd aunt Sylvie who is, at best, barely tethered to social norms. The girls, Ruth & Lucille, have then to contend with, not only their own relationship with Sylvie, but also with the concerns of the well meaning but entirely conservative and perplexed residents of the small 1950s Pacific Northwestern town in which they live. Christine Lahti is exceptional as Sylvie and gives a sublime performance as the eccentric aunt who dares to step outside of the suffocating domesticity that faced women of the era, 'a woman slightly distracted by the possibilities of life'.
Filled with Forsyth’s off-beat but exceptionally humanist style, Housekeeping is a wonderfully sad, funny, strange and accurate fable about life, directed with exceptional skill, grace and charm. A haunting comedy that will stay with you for many years to come.
7.40PM WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20TH
NETWORK
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Nominated for 10 Oscars with a searingly sensational Oscar winning screenplay named by The Writer’s Guild of America as one of the 10 best ever written, Paddy Chayefsky’s story of a TV news anchor who one day appears to have a nervous breakdown live on air whilst going on a fanatical rant, and the subsequent fall-out, is an all encompassing razor sharp satire about America and its media.
The New York Times labelled it "literate, darkly funny and breathtakingly prescient... the greatest screenplay of the 20th century’. Impeccably acted by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight (who all won Oscars for their roles) joined by William Holden and Robert Duvall, directed by one of the all time greats in Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon), Network is the benchmark by which all other media satires are measured.
8PM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29TH
AMERICAN MOVIE
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One of the funniest, most heartfelt and enjoyable documentaries of all time
​now celebrating it's 25th anniversary 'American Movie' (winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival) centres on young Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt who along with friend Mike Schank are attempting to make low budget horror movie 'Coven'. 'Attempting' being the operative word. Armed only with determination and a $3000 loan from his uncle, a combination of mishaps, mismanagement and sheer ineptitude lead to a catalogue of hilarious filmmaking disasters.
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Here director Chris Smith, who went on to create a string of successful docs that include 'Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond' (the doc about Jim Carrey playing Andy Kauffman in Man On The Moon), 'Fyre' (about the failed Fyre Festival), 'Sr' (about Robert Downey Jr. and his father, Robert Downey Sr), the recent 2023 Wham! doc and an upcoming 2024 DEVO doc. crafts one of the most beloved, intimate and amusing docs of all time in 'American Movie'.
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This bittersweet doc about a would-be director and his bumbling but loyal friend is surprisingly funny, touching and a real love letter to the burning sense of ambition that fuels every true filmmaker as well as a loving and joyous portrait of two hapless friends chasing their dreams. ​​
“INTERESTING, FUN, UNUSUAL, OVERLOOKED CINEMA, CLASSIC AND NEW, SCREENING
ALL YEAR ROUND.”
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